Hello! Firstly, I finally decidd to buy a Blofeld Keyboard Black Edition. It has O.S. 1.15 and all seems quite good. I held-off purchasing until O.S. kinks worked-out and sorry for ressurrecting a somewhat older post but could someone please tell me two things because unless I am missing it, I cannot see anywhere on Waldorf.de website where other than downloads, an explaination of what O.S. 1.16beta2 and the newer one for Blofeld keyboard, KBC13, what exactly these do/benefit thereof, and ANY user's experience with these and IF they are considered "critical" updates, please? Thanks in advance! FYI--am asking because since my keyboard is operating so great and stable, the old cliche` of "If it isn't broke, don't fix it", really has some logic to it. Plus, am not really keen on ANYTHING "beta", regarding the second update. Thanks in advance! Really love the Blofeld and glad I decided to invest in this instead of the Q-rack, having already two Micro Q Omega's and Microwave XT._________________Waldorf: Blofeld, MicroQ Omega, XT, Q-Rack, PULSE PLUS, NAVE, Miniworks 4-Pole; Virus KB and KC; DSI Evolver Desktop and 2-MEK's(poly-chained)-x2; Korg: Wavestation SR, DW-8000; Alesis: Ion, Fusion--for HollowSun SampleBanks; Novation Supernova 1; Quasimidi Polymorph; Roland SH-32; Yamaha: RM1X, CS2X; Elektron Analog Four, MnM mk1; Reaper, Scarlett 18i20, Studio Maine Coone Cat pre-loaded with toxic wavetables on each fang and claw! Military Training! Crossbow:-)

This firmware for the Blofdeld Keyboard fixes a reported issue with some
keyboards where unreliable note-on velocities were perceived when repeating
notes with high release velocities. It is recommended for all Blofeld
Keyboard, regardless if the issue is present or not. To perform this upgrade,
please connect your Blofeld Keyboard to a PC or Mac and play the MIDI File
BlofeldKBC13.mid to the Blofeld via USB. For Windows XP, we recommend using
the Media Player, for all others you can use Spectre, which can be downloaded
from our website www.waldorfmusic.de .

Note that this fix only applies to Blofeld Keyboard, the desktop version can
not load this upgrade due to the lack of a keyboard MCU.

Wow! Quick response and I thank you very very much! The is proof-positive that great folks at Waldorf actually monitor the feedback of their customers as well as questions!
Since you (Waldorf) are monitoring these posts, I want to give kudos to your industrial design team regarding the Blofeld Keyboard Black Edition's back panel that has a lip coming down lower than main body! In my set-up, I have the most strong two-tier OnStage Stands, with my Access Virus KB on top of this rack. The Blofeld Keyboard's bottom/back lip acts as a lever/hook to literally hang-off the 75% blank surface of the Virus B Keyboard PERFECTLY, albeit the 49 keyboard of Blofeld's upper-most one and half octaves or so hangs out to right, albeit I would not do this with a cheaper/low quality two-tier stand, but I also have a fullt weighted 88 keyboard on lower rack for even more leverage. Even so, will get male/female velcro to affix it as a fail-safe, but just thought to thank you for this excellent design, whether intended for this way I have used or not--perhaps others will benefit from this "A-HA" utilitarian use from this post!
May I ask, (even though off-topic), when we shall see the Pulse 2 released? _________________Waldorf: Blofeld, MicroQ Omega, XT, Q-Rack, PULSE PLUS, NAVE, Miniworks 4-Pole; Virus KB and KC; DSI Evolver Desktop and 2-MEK's(poly-chained)-x2; Korg: Wavestation SR, DW-8000; Alesis: Ion, Fusion--for HollowSun SampleBanks; Novation Supernova 1; Quasimidi Polymorph; Roland SH-32; Yamaha: RM1X, CS2X; Elektron Analog Four, MnM mk1; Reaper, Scarlett 18i20, Studio Maine Coone Cat pre-loaded with toxic wavetables on each fang and claw! Military Training! Crossbow:-)

Thanks for that tip, although I simply am qay too private of an individual to join the Social Media swarm, regardless of potentially obvious advantages of doing so. Once one joins the "swarm", an aspect of one's individuality indeed is shed. Yes, perhaps my own observation, but I view Facebook akin to George Orwell's "Group-Think", depicted in his excellent novel, "1984". Lastly, Smartphones are actually an oxymoron in that at least all over the USA, people are more ingrossed in updating/answering their Social Media than actually paying attention when crossing a street or dumb enough to place more attention on Social Media than driving a two ton automobile at 70 miles per hour! Would-be thieves are using Social Media to monitor when a family goes to work, church, out for any reason on any regularity--and they do not ever need to "case" the actual home before robbing because members of Social Media do ALL the work for them! Wake-up people!_________________Waldorf: Blofeld, MicroQ Omega, XT, Q-Rack, PULSE PLUS, NAVE, Miniworks 4-Pole; Virus KB and KC; DSI Evolver Desktop and 2-MEK's(poly-chained)-x2; Korg: Wavestation SR, DW-8000; Alesis: Ion, Fusion--for HollowSun SampleBanks; Novation Supernova 1; Quasimidi Polymorph; Roland SH-32; Yamaha: RM1X, CS2X; Elektron Analog Four, MnM mk1; Reaper, Scarlett 18i20, Studio Maine Coone Cat pre-loaded with toxic wavetables on each fang and claw! Military Training! Crossbow:-)

I simply am qay too private of an individual to join the Social Media swarm

So what's electro-music.com if it isn't social media? I personally can't see the difference? If we didn't have social media I would have thought that the Egyptian elections currently taking place today, would never have happened. Sorry for the OT, but I can't help thinking that it is conspiratorial paranoia and alarmism that is the real bogeyman?_________________ACHTUNG!
ALLES TURISTEN UND NONTEKNISCHEN LOOKENPEEPERS!
DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN! ODERWISE IST EASY TO SCHNAPPEN DER SPRINGENWERK, BLOWENFUSEN UND POPPENCORKEN MIT SPITZENSPARKSEN.
IST NICHT FÜR GEWERKEN BEI DUMMKOPFEN. DER RUBBERNECKEN SIGHTSEEREN KEEPEN DAS COTTONPICKEN HÄNDER IN DAS POCKETS MUSS.
ZO RELAXEN UND WATSCHEN DER BLINKENLICHTEN.

I am speaking of "FACEBOOK" only, and only for myself. Yes, Twitter and Facebook have been instrumental in geo-political means and for business as well. This electro-musician is a "FORUM", which is not social media in the Facebook variety that I personally have a problem with their privacy policies--again, that's just me; not some "conspiracy theory or paranoia". As a recently Disabled Veteran and now medically retired;regardless of privacy settings available on say Facebook specifically--the Veteran's Admn. has actually revoked many Veteran's Disability Assignment by abstractly viewing if a Veteran with PTSD can interact and use Facebook, they have used this as a means of determining those veterans can then work, regardless of even physical limitations.
Meanwhile, ANY Politician, even a poorly performing one that serves just one, two-year term gets a pension for rest of their life. Yet, in an effort to perhaps save the gov't money--on the very backs of we that have had sand in our shoes in formidable conditions fighting to preserve liberty and democracy/freedoms--utilizing social media in their abstract and arcane minds could possibly be the path for yet more Veterans to literally be homeless, losing benefits, etc.
So I guess I have qualified why I choose to remain private and not jeopardize what I served for 23 years to receive. FYI--there's quite a gray area of what really defines "social media", but Forums, which this indeed is, definitely has differences from say an online political Blog. Perhaps apples to oranges, but since Veteran's Admn. treats those of us with PTSD as outcasts, they will do everything possible to not grant or take away granted benefits. I know it may not make sense unless you have personally been part of the Dept. Of Defense System, but it is what it is. That's the great thing about individuality and freedom--I can remain in perhaps the "minority" of non-Social Media crowd. If that somehow makes me perceived as being a non-conformist, then Orwell's "Brave New World" and "1984" depiction of "Group Think" has defined those that come to that conclusion. Consider at the musical, home studio level on many forums where there's those that are so anti-hardware that they believe they are somehow superior to those of us that chose not to go the vst route. Human Psychology is indeed an interesting study and Social Media such as example of Facebook as the topic here, has actually openned-up a whole new field of addictive behaviors and new generation that cannot actually physically interact as well as they can do so by sending a text. To each their own--no different than prefering hardware sequencers over DAW-centric studio. Peace!_________________Waldorf: Blofeld, MicroQ Omega, XT, Q-Rack, PULSE PLUS, NAVE, Miniworks 4-Pole; Virus KB and KC; DSI Evolver Desktop and 2-MEK's(poly-chained)-x2; Korg: Wavestation SR, DW-8000; Alesis: Ion, Fusion--for HollowSun SampleBanks; Novation Supernova 1; Quasimidi Polymorph; Roland SH-32; Yamaha: RM1X, CS2X; Elektron Analog Four, MnM mk1; Reaper, Scarlett 18i20, Studio Maine Coone Cat pre-loaded with toxic wavetables on each fang and claw! Military Training! Crossbow:-)

So anyway, my Blofeld is bullet-proof with the latest f/w. It used to flake out in multimode but not so much now - small glitches but not full freezes_________________OctaTrack, SP-404, AS Leipzig K & Telemark, Mono Evolver K, Crumar Bit 01, T-Resonator, MacBook Pro, Live 9 Suite and Push.

I was sick for a while and haven't used my Blofeld for six months. I've updated my Macbook to OSX 10.7.4 and my Blofeld is running v1.15. It won't show up in my Audio Midi set up arg!! I'm using a proper USB 2.0 cable.

Should I update to the beta - any recommendations please I want to start making music again

I've heard a few problems with compatibility problems with Lion and the Blofeld, but the answer really is don't use the USB port. Use the MIDI ports instead, as MIDI is still the industry standard. The USB port afaik is only really there for updates etc.

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